• Dagwood222@lemm.ee
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    3 months ago

    Look up The Moral Majority and Jerry Falwell.

    Falwell made himself a big deal in the GOP by getting his troops to show up at every single local Republican event with enough votes to make sure that they got everything they wanted. It started small with sheriffs and county clerks, and then Congress members.

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      3 months ago

      I was a youth at that time and my only memory of the Moral Majority is the boob scene in Airplane! 🤷‍♀️

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      3 months ago

      This doesn’t work for the left because cults are a right-wing phenomenon. Lying and brainwashing people is inherently authoritarian.

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        3 months ago

        By that logic, every Union is a cult. All I said was that people should organize and show up and vote.